Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
...by virtue of the fact that we need all the land in The Frame
Looking at the "plans" they do seem to be factoring quite a few buildings into that 'Frame' area - perhaps some could be pre-existing, I hope the new timber building being built at the moment for the Hi tech incubator near the corner of St Asaph and Manchester is one, as The Frame starts there....
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to merc,
I can see the trip to the mystery money person now… I need money for some stuff that I am waiting to be told what it’s for.
I note the "partners" involved for the Frame are:
Partners: CCC, ECan, NZTA, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the philanthropic sector and the private sector
It is all still just a big wish list unless those last two step up, The Press headline said "Key backs roofed Stadium" (or similar) - isn't it grand that a philanthropic multi-millionaire is giving us a 'guarantee against loss'...
How you you privatise the profit and socialise the debt when your boss says no one owns water but your Govt. created ECan?
Don't show John and Gerry this then...
I also note in the plan that the maps they are using don't show any tram tracks?
(though there is a pic of a tram somewhere in there)The council is also allegedly starting a Life in Vacant Spaces programme - for inner city markets and the like, which could be good....
and they reckon all done by 2017!
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Cap it all, my dear... what's on?
...Sherlock Holmes hat?
Dear Stalker, this is a Sherlock Holmes hat
;- )and off the top of my head, in truth (insofar as fiction can ever be truth) he seldom wore an earflapped travelling cap...
Mine is an Italian-made flat cloth cap, which I inherited from my Dad...
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Last Rites
I have a dream...
...in which John Key
and his Government
are the Last Rights
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Doesn’t really help
Damn, point taken, isn't there something we can do about this freedom of speech thing!
All the wrong people are talking....
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
I agree this is getting worse by the year.
Nice pic - You got my best side!
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Consequences – Light rail to the airport could give the council’s Airport company a hit in the parking revenue pocket, it seems to be their cash cow*, unless of course they price the light rail prohibitively, too….
and I have yet to see convincing numbers to make the university connection useful, most people out that way shop out there too…
In chchch we should worry more about lie trails than Light Rails – Gawd, Gerry Brownlee simpering for the cameras last night was more than I could stomache…
*I will always arrange to pick up and drop off rather than park at the airport in future since they dropped the free 15 minute period, it’s virtually $4 just to turn your engine off…
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Silverfish leave Chchch...
It’s bloody hard to fit scruffy second-hand
bookshops into a big, shiny planFor that I think you'll have to go to New Brighton which has a couple of the only second hand bookshops extant in Chchch...
...and eventually Woolston, or as Philip Matthews has coined it 'Faux-pawa' - what, no 'Tannery Row'?
"- )Personally I think we should have few years (or longer) of street markets, with bookstalls like the they have along the Seine in Paris...
I don't see a Government/Admin precinct or the much vaunted Education Precinct in this big new plan either... and it looks like with the same lack of vision that doomed cricket at AMI (Lancaster park) they intend to have cricket in the new Oval in Hagley park - ie something else NOT happening in the new shiny empty stadium or precinct, seems daft to me...
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the Borrowers...
at least they're gonna have the Library in the square...
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Nice work, whoever gave Family First's anti-gay marriage site some DoS love...
Meanwhile the "Christians" are still in denial over David and Jonathan claiming they were just 'really tight combat buds...'